Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience negotiating and structuring agreements or leading business development.
• Experience in performing data-driven network availability and resiliency analysis.
• Experience managing and partnering with partners to create relationships and business outcomes and in growing partners businesses.
• Experience with network capacity planning.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with strategic negotiations or business development in obtaining services from high-technology providers in collocation data centers, collocation data center construction, collocation data center equipment, dark fiber, network transport, bilateral terrestrial/undersea interconnects, and IT services.
• Ability to discuss complex agreements with vendors, partners, and suppliers.
• Excellent financial skills including network present value calculations, agreement structuring, and return on investment analysis.

Responsibilities

• Secure partnerships and business agreements with suppliers, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure we deliver the best possible solutions to the customers and users.
• Build and cultivate relationships with key executives in the African technology ecosystem to foster collaboration and drive mutual success.
• Drive Growth to the strategic growth of our network infrastructure in Africa and help us expand our reach and impact.